Benjamin Franklin returned from a long, long business trip to London in 1775. He was happy to be home. But not quite as happy as those leaders of the Colonies.

John Hancock, of Boston, was President of the Continental Congress when Ben returned to Philadelphia. Ben was welcomed by his wife, by his friends in Philly, and by Congress, the Continental Congress, where he would become a delegate from Pennsylvania.

But before that John Hancock approached Benjamin Franklin with the news. “Dr. Franklin, we’re giving you your old job back as Postmaster of the Colonies.”

Ben chuckled in response and said: “I never seek, I never refuse, I never resign an office.” And he went back to work in Congress and in the Post Office!